NPR: Trump's Defunding Order an 'Affront to First Amendment Rights'
Both PBS and National Public Radio are cadging for change, even before President Trump’s executive order cutting taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But NPR has gone out a bit further on the ledge since then, their tone becoming increasingly aggressive, even apocalyptic, as demonstrated by three recent donation banners that have flown on NPR’s…
Velshi Claims Public Broadcasting Leads To Healthier Democracy
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi gave an ode to public broadcasting on his Sunday show, where he tried to claim that the existence of public media is correlated with democratic health. In order to make such a claim, Velshi had to ignore one major detail from the study he cited.
NewsBusters Podcast: Trump Takes On Hostile Media, Unlike Hidin' Biden
On Sunday, President Trump tangled with NBC's Kristen Welker, after he had verbal combat with ABC's Terry Moran and Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. Four years ago, President Biden granted no interviews to the liberal media. They didn't care. Once again, Trump is punished for granting broad access to hostile journalists.
CBS's Brennan Lines Up NPR and PBS CEOs to Dismiss Incessant Bias
One really easy way to know that TV journalists are Democrats is how they rush to defense of PBS and NPR and use all the same arguments that Democrats have made in congressional hearings and social media. They willfully ignore the incessant bias of "public" broadcasting and deflect back to kiddie shows like Sesame Street, as if that's anything like comparing Trump to Hitler. On Sunday…
PBS Promotes Elie Mystal's Rage: Immigration Laws Are Deeply Racist
One easy way to prove that PBS and NPR are like taxpayer-funded MSNBC is their promotion of radical ranter Elie Mystal of The Nation magazine. On Amanpour & Co. on Friday, Hari Sreenivasan tossed softballs at Mystal for 17 minutes over his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America. On March 24, NPR's Fresh Air platformed his rage for 36…
'Malaise!' Nicolle Wallace Tries to Pin The Jimmy Carter Card On Trump
On Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace brings on Michelle Norris, formerly of NPR's All Things Considered, now an MSNBC "senior contributing editor," to claim that President Trump's economic moves will bring about "malaise." Wallace echoes the M-word. Shades of Jimmy Carter!
CNN, MSNBC Freak Out, Claim PBS 'Puts The Us In The U.S.'
The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.
Ex-NPR Anchor Says Trump Hates PBS/NPR Because He Hates 'Independence'
On Friday's episode of In The Arena with Kasie Hunt, they were discussing Trump's executive order to defund NPR and PBS alongside his questioning of federal funding for Harvard with its serious antisemitism problem. New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who spent 17 years at NPR, had a theory about Trump -- he just hates "independence," anything that threatens his…
NewsBusters Podcast: PBS & NPR Get DEFUNDED Via Trump Executive Order
It was Christmas in May for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters after President Trump signed an executive order defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On this episode of the NewsBusters Podcast, Curtis Houck and I fill in and discuss the EO and the necessity of defunding state-sponsored media like PBS and NPR. And since the EO was such a major event, usual host Tim Graham…
Before Trump Laid Hammer on PBS/NPR, They Sponged for Money by Email
The fundraising arms of PBS and NPR were already on the defensive over challenges to their overwhelmingly biased reporting on the taxpayers’ dime. Now comes President Trump’s executive order Thursday night cutting taxpayer funding of PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X.
CNN’s Stelter Pulls His Hair Out Over Trump's EO Defunding PBS/NPR
Despite repeatedly calling Fox News “state TV” during President Trump’s first term (when he still had his show, so-called Reliable Sources), CNN’s Brian Stelter decried Trump’s executive order defunding the actual state-media outlets of PBS and NPR. In his appearance on Friday’s Inside Politics, Stelter argued that Trump didn’t have the authority to strip funding but he…
Former NPR CEO: Ceasing Taxpayer Support Is 'Attacking a Free Press'
Former scandal-plagued NPR CEO Vivian Schiller joined CNN News Central guest host Erica Hill on Friday to freak out over President Donald Trump’s Thursday executive order that ceased taxpayer money from going to NPR and PBS. According to Schiller, the move is just another example of Trump “attacking a free press” for reporting on things he does not like.
ABC, CBS Morning Shows Skip Trump EO to Defund Far-Left Pals NPR, PBS
Late Thursday night, President Trump moved via executive order to defund far-left networks National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS on the TV side, ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cease direct and indirect taxpayer funding in addition to government agencies ceasing federal grants. A move decades in the making, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings were…
BREAKING: Trump Signs Executive Order to End Tax Money for PBS, NPR
On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the “Rapid Response 47” account on X. It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news…
